How Will You Vote?

[ll74]

Simple question - for the November election, how do you intend to vote - absentee/mail-in, early voting in person or in person on election day?

I'm planning on mail-in voting, as I'll be out of town on election day and the parking lot is absurd for early voting and day of voting

 

[SimonDoom]

I don't know yet. I usually vote in person, but I'm fortunate that the voting location I use rarely has long lines.

 

[YDB95]

I already have voted, absentee. The commute is a bit far for voting in person.

 

[eric_erosfan]

In person. I'm also lucky that it is usually no more than a 15 minute wait even at the busiest times.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Early in-person. I like that for early voting, our locality lets us vote at any of the polling places.

PS — Election Day should be a national holiday to enable working people to conveniently vote.

 

[Bray123]

Carefully.

Hegseth Says National Security and Military Cyber Forces Will Guard U.S. Election​

The announcement comes after President Donald Trump gutted the civilian agency specifically created to safeguard election infrastructure.

https://www.washingtonsun.com/hegseth-national-security-military-cyber-forces-midterms

 

[jomar]

Early voting in person

 

[coati]

By mail, as usual. As early as possible.

You don't have to be Einstein to figure out who and what to vote for.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Simple question - for the November election, how do you intend to vote - absentee/mail-in, early voting in person or in person on election day?

I'm planning on mail-in voting, as I'll be out of town on election day and the parking lot is absurd for early voting and day of voting

In person. At the nearest precinct.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

Dropping off our mail-in ballots at the Dropbox outside the library. It’ll be my son’s first Presidential election.

 

[AnAmericanDarling]

Early voting, in-person. No question as to who I would vote for.

 

[ll74]

Ohio starts early, in person voting today

 

[Bray123]

The USPS is hiring thousands of armed security guards to do something at depots in blue states.

But not in red states (where voter fraud was identified many times in previous elections). It matters not how you vote, citizen. What matters is who counts the votes.

 

[ll74]

The USPS is hiring thousands of armed security guards to do something at depots in blue states.

But not in red states (where voter fraud was identified many times in previous elections). It matters not how you vote, citizen. What matters is who counts the votes.

Please provide sources for your information.

 

[Bray123]

Please provide sources for your information.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/2678013721
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Alarms are blaring as the United States Postal Service orders an influx of contracted-out armed security at facilities just weeks before the midterm elections.

Nearly 1,000 armed security officers (ASOs) have been deployed in at least 55 USPS facilities through a private contractor, multinational security firm Prosegur, which has a history of alleged human rights abuses and price fixing, according to a recent Raw Story investigation.

President Donald Trump waged a war on mail-in voting earlier this year when he issued an executive order limiting who would receive mail-in ballots. But, six months later, the Supreme Court rejected his push for USPS to impose some mail-in voting restrictions.



This week, Trump made an about-face from his frequent criticisms of mail-in voting to encourage Republicans to vote by mail for the Nov. 3 elections.

Still, the timing of installing armed guards employed by a private security company has left many worried, including current and former USPS employees.

“The Trump administration is clearly taking every step they can to control voting, and they're going to use the Postal Service to do that,” said Mark Ungar, a political science professor with the John Jay School of Criminal Justice in New York who has studied privatized security firms like Prosegur.

“Any contract with Prosegur, any way that removes accountability from the American people of the Postal Service, which they're already doing, I think, is concerning at the very least.”

Claire McKean, a postal contractor and investigative researcher, said she was “alarmed” when she started seeing armed security guards deployed in mostly “deep blue states or swing states.”

ASOs are located at USPS facilities coast-to-coast in places like Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis, Phoenix, San Diego and Tampa, according to internal memos.

They are most commonly deployed at facilities with 1,000 or more employees, said Frank Albergo executive director of the Postal Police Officers Association union, which is notified whenever a new facility plans to deploy ASOs.

“No one from the postal service will be supervising these armed guards. It will be completely a private contractor who controls these armed guards, so you basically have private contractors in and around ballots without any federal control. To me, that's crazy,” Albergo said.

“It just could be a red flag. Will it have an impact on the election? Who knows? But you certainly could argue that it has an effect … it might give Trump an excuse to call into question the integrity of the election. That's the problem. It’s the perception of it.”

In response to multiple questions from Raw Story, a spokesperson for the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the law enforcement arm of USPS, sent an emailed statement.

“At key facilities throughout the country, we have had a mix of armed and unarmed contract security officers in addition to the current career employee Postal Police Officer (PPO) complement,” the spokesperson said.

“They are deployed to provide security and act as a deterrent to criminals or employees who may wish to compromise the mailstream or potentially harm the people inside. To maintain operational security, we do not disclose specific locations of security force deployments. The deployment of armed guards is part of our overall security plan and is not specific to elections.”

In response to Raw Story's inquiry, a Prosegur spokesperson sent an emailed statement.

"We looked into the allegations you raised and could not find any incidents or complaints as you referenced," said Fernando Geijo, a spokesperson for Prosegur. "Further, we are not in a position to discuss the USPS account for confidentiality reasons."

 

[ll74]

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/2678013721
It will prompt for log-in, which can be bypassed by hitting 'read-mode' in browser. F9 may work.
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Alarms are blaring as the United States Postal Service orders an influx of contracted-out armed security at facilities just weeks before the midterm elections.

Nearly 1,000 armed security officers (ASOs) have been deployed in at least 55 USPS facilities through a private contractor, multinational security firm Prosegur, which has a history of alleged human rights abuses and price fixing, according to a recent Raw Story investigation.

President Donald Trump waged a war on mail-in voting earlier this year when he issued an executive order limiting who would receive mail-in ballots. But, six months later, the Supreme Court rejected his push for USPS to impose some mail-in voting restrictions.



This week, Trump made an about-face from his frequent criticisms of mail-in voting to encourage Republicans to vote by mail for the Nov. 3 elections.

Still, the timing of installing armed guards employed by a private security company has left many worried, including current and former USPS employees.

“The Trump administration is clearly taking every step they can to control voting, and they're going to use the Postal Service to do that,” said Mark Ungar, a political science professor with the John Jay School of Criminal Justice in New York who has studied privatized security firms like Prosegur.

“Any contract with Prosegur, any way that removes accountability from the American people of the Postal Service, which they're already doing, I think, is concerning at the very least.”

Claire McKean, a postal contractor and investigative researcher, said she was “alarmed” when she started seeing armed security guards deployed in mostly “deep blue states or swing states.”

ASOs are located at USPS facilities coast-to-coast in places like Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis, Phoenix, San Diego and Tampa, according to internal memos.

They are most commonly deployed at facilities with 1,000 or more employees, said Frank Albergo executive director of the Postal Police Officers Association union, which is notified whenever a new facility plans to deploy ASOs.

“No one from the postal service will be supervising these armed guards. It will be completely a private contractor who controls these armed guards, so you basically have private contractors in and around ballots without any federal control. To me, that's crazy,” Albergo said.

“It just could be a red flag. Will it have an impact on the election? Who knows? But you certainly could argue that it has an effect … it might give Trump an excuse to call into question the integrity of the election. That's the problem. It’s the perception of it.”

In response to multiple questions from Raw Story, a spokesperson for the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the law enforcement arm of USPS, sent an emailed statement.

“At key facilities throughout the country, we have had a mix of armed and unarmed contract security officers in addition to the current career employee Postal Police Officer (PPO) complement,” the spokesperson said.

“They are deployed to provide security and act as a deterrent to criminals or employees who may wish to compromise the mailstream or potentially harm the people inside. To maintain operational security, we do not disclose specific locations of security force deployments. The deployment of armed guards is part of our overall security plan and is not specific to elections.”

In response to Raw Story's inquiry, a Prosegur spokesperson sent an emailed statement.

"We looked into the allegations you raised and could not find any incidents or complaints as you referenced," said Fernando Geijo, a spokesperson for Prosegur. "Further, we are not in a position to discuss the USPS account for confidentiality reasons."

The source link was enough , but thank you.

 

[ll74]

Early voting numbers in Ohio are up. Locally, my friend who is working the polls said they were up from 400 last time to 1100 on Tuesday.

In 77 of the state’s 88 counties, 30,326 people voted early in person, according to election data compiled by The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com. That’s a 138% increase from the 12,741 ballots cast in those same counties on the first day of early voting for the 2022 general election.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026...-of-2026-general-election.html?outputType=amp

 

[Bray123]

Tina Peters, the former Mesa County Colorado County Clerk who was jailed (and released by Trump) for trying to overturn the 2020 election has now met with the Insurrectionist in Chief to discus future plans.

The White House is refusing to reveal what those plans in the run-up to the mid-terms might be, but Trump has said he has no intention of losing these elections.

https://coloradonewsline.com/2026/10/06/tina-peters-met-with-trump/

 

[Bray123]

International observers have been blocked from overseeing the mid-terms.

https://www.foreign.senate.gov/pres...rnational-observers-from-us-midterm-elections
Yup, these elections will be completely fair and anyone who says different will be jailed. They are the ENEMY!

 

[PattyJune500]

In person and proudly!

 

[Chernosoth]

Biking there will add at least a mile, maybe 2 miles to my ride, if I have time that day. I might decide to vote early.

 

[ll74]

I switched. I ended up voting early in person today instead of applying for mail-in. Many local levies for fire, schools..etc. which will likely fail.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

In person. My state has early voting.